<h1>Daniel Eng</h1>

Daniel Eng

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Parthenope: Knowledge and Beauty

Parthenope: Knowledge and Beauty

The whole film we are kept at a distance from our protagonist Parthenope, who represents the beauty that Sorrentino always seems to be trying to capture in his films. Parthenope follows the titular character in her university life in Naples, where she seems committed...

The Colors Within: Music as a Sanctuary

The Colors Within: Music as a Sanctuary

From the director of A Silent Voice, Naoko Yamada, The Colors Within follows Totsuko, a young lonely girl whose time at an all-Catholic girls school has been quite fulfilling. However, her unique ability to see people as different colors leads her to find people whose...

Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny – Growing Up

Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny – Growing Up

Jim Gaffigan's The Skinny is a one hour comedy special that Gaffigan directed, produced and wrote himself. The title is his starting point where he makes funny observations about his weight loss journey. I'll begin my stating that I had never watched a Jim Gaffigan...

Interior Chinatown – Breaking Down Narrative Walls

Interior Chinatown is about Willis Wu, a ordinary and boring waiter at a Chinatown restaurant. The show is framed in two ways. First, as a meta-narrative where the main character Willis Wu is stuck in a typical cable cop show the features two attractive leads who...

TIFF ’24: My Sunshine

TIFF ’24: My Sunshine

In a small town in Japan, Takuya is shy young boy clearly unfascinated with the sports that his parents have placed him in. He barely moves in hockey and looks to the sky hoping for snow during baseball season. Then, one day, as he is stuck in the draining motions of...